Tampa Bay Bucs cornerback Ronde Barber talked with the media Wednesday on a lot of subjects including passing former Derrick Brooks as the franchise’s all-time leader in games played, his future and what inspires him (to see the blog, click here).

Today, we reflect his feelings on the season, his relationship with coach Raheem Morris and his thoughts on whether Morris should return:

You’ve been on a Super Bowl winning team; You’ve also been on rebuilding teams. Does this season feel different?

“You get into the game for one reason and that’s to win. All that other stuff aside, you play to win. You give yourself a chance to get in the playoffs and make a run. The 20 teams that don’t get there, whether they’re 4-11 or 4-12 or 10-6 like we were last year and you don’t get there, it’s got to be a disappointment. Throw that on top of how we played lately and to me it doesn’t feel the same.”

What happened this season?

“It’s not quite the same, whether it was players, whether it was attention to details, we lost something in the past 10 weeks that we had coming into the season and that showed itself in the first five or six weeks. It’s something we have to figure out as an organization.”

What is this franchise’s hope for the future?

“Our youth has got to be our uptick. It just has to. It’s how we’ve chosen to manufacture this football team going forward and we’ve got to lean on that as a positive. They’ve got plenty of room to go. It’s not like they’e got a bunch of mes out here playing poorly. They have a bunch of young guys that can and have to play better.”

You are close with coach Raheem Morris. Does his future tie in with whether or not you’ll return?

“Yea, I would be lying if I didn’t say that would be somewhat true. But we’ll see. Ideally, I’d love to be back playing with Rah, playing with (defensive back coach Jimmy Lake), playing with (linebacker coach) Joe Baker, all those guys. They’re great coaches, fun to be around. They understand me. I understand them. I imagine that would have something to do with it.”

Will you lobby for Morris to return?

“That’s not for me to do. Although if there was one person that could do it that would be me. But that’s not my job.”

Supposed the Glazers or General Manager ask your opinion of Morris?

“I have lots of good opinions of Rah. He’s a good friend of mine and I want well for him. He deserves a team that plays its ass off to be honest with you; guys that care about winning football because that’s what good coaches have. But Rah; he’s going to be Raheem. He doesn’t pretend to be anyone else because that’s who he is. Rah didn’t do anything different than he did last year and the results are starkly different. So if that’s who we want in a head coach, then that’s who we got. That’s about as comfortable as I can be with it.”